industrial action

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But in their statement announcing the ballot for industrial action, the teaching unions said that the department's action plan "did not go far enough" in reducing the workload of teachers and school leaders.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In Communion, Doyle has combined those events with a fictional version of the industrial action which occurred after Tata's announcement that it planned to shut off the blast furnaces.

From BBC • May 31, 2026

Samsung’s management and its union leaders struck the deal in negotiations mediated by South Korea’s labor minister at late last Wednesday, just hours before industrial action at the company was set to begin.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Unions at the ILO had argued that this by extension enshrined the right to industrial action, but employers disagreed, so they took the fight to the ICJ.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

The existence of such a system of taxation, with the machinery for collecting money in this way, allows the government more freedom of industrial action than any private individual can command.

From Practical Argumentation by Pattee, George K.